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HASTI PUBLIC SCHOOL AND JR COLLEGE ,DONDACHA                                                                                                                                      BLOGNO.95                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Our Hasti school school is doing its best in accomplishing  the objectives of  child centric  education by using the perfect blend of traditional values with advanced technology. The school is imparting education for the holistic development of the children .here is small attempt to have a quick look in to the   the aim of education as propounded by eminent thinkers and educationists namely Mahatma Gandhi , Rabindranath Tagore, Tarabai Modak ,J Krishnamurthy and  Gijubhai Bedhaka                                                  

  * According to J.Krishnamurti

His Philosophy of Life: Jidddu Krishnamurti is one of the greatest religious teacher who advocated a spirit of doubt and inquiry and disregarded blind faith and acceptance. He opined that all human beings are first of all human beings and not Hindus, Muslims or Christians and we should have a deep sense of reverence for nature and all its creations. He insisted that self-knowledge is different from academic knowledge. Self: knowledge is concerned with the social problems that disturb us and incoherence that is within individuals.

Aims of Education according to J.Krishnamurti :

He was a critique of imposing thinking, but advocated development of independent thinking. Education is creation of integrated human beings who are mature, fearless, self-aware, good and loving. Education consists in understanding the Child as he is, and not imposing on him an ideal of what we think he should be, because sensitivity can never be awakened through compulsion.

Education must also develop right kind of relationship between individual and society. Education must free mind intelligently from , the desire for reward which breeds fear and conformity. Rather, it should give freedom, encourage understanding of inherited tendencies and environmental influences, which condition the mind and heart and bring out an integrated individual.

Aims of Education According to Gijubhai Badheka.

His Philosophy of Education: He was a great thinker from Gujarat. He emphasized on child-centered education. His novel ideas about education are given in his book “Divasapna” which is an imaginary story of a teacher who rejected the orthodox system of education. He actually was a teacher who later became head master of a school but he did not like education system. So, he resigned and started a pre school on experimental basis. -He wanted school to be a place children love to be in. he advocated an atmosphere of independence and self-reliance.

Aims of Education according to Gijubhai Badheka :

He took school as Mandir and accordingly named his institutions as Bal Mandir, Kishore Mandir, Vinery Mandir to clarify that no physical or mental torture should take place in a school. He suggested learners must be given freedom to have their own ideas. He must be given an opportunity to learn by doing as per their age and interest.

Education must cultivate rationality, harmony, balanced, natural and useful life. Education is the process of complete unfolding of a child’s personality. It should also develop sense, training, motor efficiency and self-learning. In nutshell, he emphasized complete unfolding of child’s personality in a complete free atmosphere.                                                                                                                                                  Aims of education according to Mahatma Gandhi- “Man is neither mere intellect, nor the gross animal body, nor the heart or soul alone. A proper and harmonious combination of all the three is required for the making of the whole man and constitutes the true economics of education” .

Aims of education are implied in the very meanings of education. He has given two sets of aims viz. immediate and ultimate aims of education.

1. Ultimate Aim:

Ultimate aim of education is identical with the goal of life, which is ‘Self-realization’. Self-realization is the realization of the self proper. True education should result not in the material gains but in spiritual uplift. Gandhiji laid great stress on religious education which teaches fundamental virtues of truth, love, justice and non-­violence. According to Gandhiji, “Like without religion is life without principles.“Gandhiji is also of the opinion that God could be achieved not by returning into jungles but by living in a society and serving it. He preferred to call a student “Brahmachari”, a searcher after God:

Self-realization can take place through self-control, character and abstinence.

2. Immediate Aims

Immediate aims include ‘bread and butter aim’, the cultural aim, the harmonious development of all powers, the moral or character development aim, and sociological aim

  Cultural Aim- According to Gandhiji cultural aspect of education is more important than the literacy. Culture is the foundation, the primary thing which the girls ought to get from here. It  should show in the smallest detail of your conduct and personal behaviour, how to sit , how to walk, how to dress etc. it is the education through which students or everyone learn the glorious culture of the country-India, its incredible arts, religions and so on. Education is the device which makes them familiar with our great culture and it is to be taught that how do they adopt and what is the importance of value of our culture. Thus Gandhiji laid much emphasis on cultural aim of education and recommended that Geeta and Ramayana to be taught as a means of introducing students to their rich cultural and spiritual heritage

Harmonious development:- Education should develop all the three levels i. e. 3RS- read, write and arithmetic The education should help in feeling what is taught and what happens to him and to express, what he feels and also what he wants to do. So all the faculties of person should be developed. Writing and reading will make him literate and arithmetic will help in calculating day-to-day expenses and more importantly it will help in logical thinking and analyzing things

1.       The Moral or Character Building Aim:- It is the chief aim of education. The central purpose of education is to build character. If choice is to be made between character and other things in life, then ever thing else can be subordinated to the former. Man must be a man of word. He must be ready to do something for the humanity at the first call to this conscience.

2.        Social and individual Aim:-  The aim of education of Gandhiji is both social and individual. He wanted individual perfection and a new social order based on “Truth” & “Non-violence”. Education trains an individual and makes him an ideal citizen who will help his nation. An individual learns so many things from surrounding, culture, society and so on and he progresses simultaneously society progresses because the individuals’ growth is nothing but the growth of the society and nation.

3.      Bread and Butter Aims:-This is also called utilitarian aim. It is due to this aim that he gave the principle of ‘self-supporting education’. The educand should not only be made capable of earning own livelihood in later life after school but also during the schooling. The child must be an earning unit who must be self- sufficient right from the beginning of the education of the child. This man is really an important aim of even modern education.